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VERSION 2.0 – November 2007 - TEACHING HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY IN EUROPE (1/28) TEACHING HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY IN EUROPE José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez (ed.) University of Valencia (Spain) [email protected] Version 2.0 – November 2007 The current report is based on the information sent by many colleagues and teachers of history of chemistry in Europe. It is a project of the Working Party on the History of Chemistry EuCheMs1 and has been coordinated by José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez with the help of Ernst Homburg and Evangelia Varella.2 The report gathers information about the teaching of history of chemistry in European universities during 2005 and 2007. An important reform of European universities is taking place, so the data offered by this report will probably change during the following years. The purpose of this report is to provide factual information and to suggest guidelines about the future place of history of chemistry in the European universities. It includes several national reports alphabetically organised by the name of the countries. I am very grateful to all the contributors who have kindly provided the most substantial parts of the following pages. Some conclusions and suggestions are offered at the end. Introduction History of chemistry has been taught in European universities since chemistry was introduced as a part of university curricula. Eighteenth-century chemistry textbooks usually contained a large introduction on the history of chemistry.3 Many books and papers on history of chemistry were published in Germany and Britain at the beginning of nineteenth-century by famous chemists such as Gmelin or Thomson. As early as in 1837, Jean Baptiste Dumas lectured a whole course on “chemical philosophy” at the Collège de France in Paris and the main focus was the history of chemistry. By the middle of the nineteenth-century, history of chemistry was taught as a separate course in the university of Giessen by Hermann Kopp (1817-1892) who published one of the first important books on history of chemistry 4. During the next years, many other publications on the history of chemistry were published by other European scholars such as Ferdinad Hoefer (1811- 1878) (Histoire de la chimie), Albert Ladenburg (1842-1911) (Vörtrage über die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Chemie) and Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) (Histoire des doctrines chimiques, which was part of his famous dictionary of chemistry)5 Many other chemists-historians published papers on history of chemistry or included substantial historical information in their textbooks and lectures.6 At the beginning of twentieth century, history of chemistry became a blossoming academic discipline inside the larger field of history of science. New institutions and new publications (Isis, 1913; Ambix, 1937, etc.) appeared and important books were published by famous historians such as Hélène Metzger, Aldo Mieli, Julius Ruska, etc..7 At the same time, history of chemistry was taught by chemistry lecturers who wanted to introduce a more humanistic view of their discipline or renovate the way in which chemical concepts were introduced8 As a result, different and somehow independent lines of work in history of chemistry have been developed by historians of science, chemists and other authors during the second half of twentieth century. The existence of different traditions, methods, purposes and approaches can be found in the following reports on the teaching of history of chemistry in Europe. 9 VERSION 2.0 – November 2007 - TEACHING HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY IN EUROPE (2/28) THE SURVEY The survey gathers information about 21 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK. AUSTRIA10 The history of chemistry is taught at the Technische Universität Wien in the Faculty of Chemistry as 3 optional ECTS for advanced students. R. W. Soukup offers lectures on "Chemical History" (2h) but also an introduction to "Philosophy and History of Science" (3h).11 In some cases, further exercises (8h) on history on science can been written by students when preparing their "Diplomarbeiten".12 At the University of Vienna a course “History of Chemistry” (1 h) is given by Prof. Dr. Adolf Mikula to all students becoming teachers of chemistry. At the University of Graz Prof. Dr.Alois Kernbauer has given courses from 1991 to 2000 (2 h), which included certain aspects of history of chemistry At the University of Linz Doz. Dr. W. Gerhard Pohl has given several courses on history of chemistry (2 h) for students becoming teachers of chemistry. The last course was given in SS 2000. In 2001 a new curriculum for chemistry teachers was introduced, which did not contain courses for history of chemistry. So the lectures did not continue. BELGIUM13 There are only few universities in Belgium that ever offered a course specifically devoted to the history of chemistry. Some of these courses seem to disappear as the professors in charge retire and the new Bologna system is installed. Most of the teaching of the history of chemistry is thus included in general history of science courses. But even these general courses do not exist in every Belgian university: there are no such course at either the University of Liège or the Université catholique de Louvain. Public lectures on history of chemistry are on the other hand offered by the sessions on “Éléments d'Histoire de la Chimie” organised by Memosciences, as well as workshops for teachers as part of the general offer for continuing education14. At the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Geert Vanpaemel teaches a course on 'History of Chemistry', offered for chemistry students as part of their Master programme. This course is optional and counts for 3 ECTS points15. The university of Antwerp announced in 2006-2007 an optional course on the history of chemistry (3 ECTS) in the bachelor programme but no teacher is mentioned, nor any programme. Hendrik Deelstra, now retired, has taught history of chemistry and is still in charge of an optional course in the history of officinal drugs and pharmaceutical sciences16. At the university of Ghent, a similar optional course History of Chemistry was taught to chemistry students by Dirk Tavernier, now retired, until academic year 2006-2007. The course was also part of the master programme and counted for 3 ECTS points17. It might be that the course will be offered again in 2008-09. At the (Flemish) university of Brussels a course on history of chemistry (3 ECTS) was taught by Gaston Moens, as an optional part of the master programme18. VERSION 2.0 – November 2007 - TEACHING HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY IN EUROPE (3/28) History of chemistry is taught at the Science Faculty of the University of Mons Hainaut by Michel Bougard as a part of a master course entitled « Histoire des sciences expérimentales » (History of experimental sciences). Some questions as the chemistry at the end of 18th century, or the opposition between atomists and equivalentists are discussed. The course (2 ECTS) is compulsory for the students who follow a master in chemistry and in physics but optional for the master in mathematics. At the French speaking University of Bruxelles chemistry students can take a course on History of Science (2 ECTS) during their bachelor years. The course is taught by Pierre Marage, and is offered to all science students. At Namur, Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, there is an optional course of history of science (2ECTS), offered to all undergraduate science students, and taught by the philosopher Bertrand Hespel. The course mainly consists in a personal paper on a chosen topic, the aim being to find in a historical scientific text the answer to a question the students have themselves rather than to consult secondary literature. In many cases, the textbooks employed in these courses are W. Brock’s History of Chemistry and I.Stengers and B. Bensaude-Vincent’s Histoire de la Chimie. BULGARIA19 The number of the students in Bulgaria is about 250 000. The number of the Higher Education Institutions is more than 100. Chemistry programs are presented in: St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Paisij Hilendarski University of Plovdiv together with its filials in Smolyan and Kardjaly, Bishop Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen, Sout-West University in Blagoevgrad, University 'Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov' in Bourgas, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in Sofia, University of Food Technologies in Plovdiv. After adoption the Bologna rules the tendency is to reduce the number of the subjects in the University curricula. Thus the small course on history of chemistry intended for chemistry students of the University of Sofia has been ceased. These lectures were delivered by Mr. Ivan Lilov, former lecturer in the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, better known by his popular books in chemistry for children. The lectures included some chronology of the discoveries in chemistry with anecdotes, mythical rather than real, for famous chemists together with a knit of their vignettes. Nowadays, at Bachelor level, no courses in History of Chemistry are presented in the above mentioned universities. Presently no History of Chemistry teaching is presented in the Bulgarian Master level education with one exception only: the University of Sofia. Faculty of Philosophy, Master of Art Program: Philosophy of Science, History of Chemistry (45 (30+15) h, ECTS: 4. The course is taught by B.V. Toshev.20 The Syllabus includes four different foci (history of chemical elements, normal science, paradigms of chemistry, chemistry and society) and a “practicum”, in which students write small critical reviews of history of science papers. 21. Another related course entitled 'Philosophy of Science' has recently been introduced in the Graduate Chemistry Curriculum of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Sofia. It is an extra course - 30 lecture hours (ECTS 3).
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